ܩܣܪ
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Classical Syriac, from Ancient Greek Καῖσαρ (Kaîsar), itself ultimately from Latin Caesar. Uses for modern monarchs are semantic loans from borrowed Arabic قَيْصَر (qayṣar), itself semantic loans from Russian царь (carʹ) and German Kaiser.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editܩܹܣܲܪ • (qēsar) m
- Caesar (Roman cognomen, notably that of Gaius Iulius Caesar)
- Caesar (an epithet of Roman emperors, seen as a byname of the incumbent)
Noun
editܩܹܣܲܪ • (qēsar) m sg (plural ܩܹܣܲܪ̈ܵܣ (qēsarrās) or ܩܹܣܪܹ̈ܐ (qēsrē), feminine ܩܹܣܲܪܬܵܐ (qēsartā))
- Caesar (an epithet of Roman emperors, seen as a generic title)
- tsar, czar (title of Slavic monarchs)
- Kaiser (title of German emperors)
- Kayser, Qaisar, Caesar (title of Ottoman Sultans after the conquest of Constantinople)
Derived terms
editClassical Syriac
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek Καῖσαρ (Kaîsar), from Latin Caesar.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editܩܣܪ • (qēsār) m (plural ܩܣܪܘ or ܩܣܪܣ)
References
edit- “qysr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2017-10-09
- Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 324b
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 512a
- Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, p. 1388b
Categories:
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms borrowed from Classical Syriac
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic learned borrowings from Classical Syriac
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms derived from Classical Syriac
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms derived from Latin
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic semantic loans from Arabic
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms derived from Arabic
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic semantic loans from Russian
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms derived from Russian
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic semantic loans from German
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms derived from German
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic lemmas
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic proper nouns
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic masculine nouns
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic nouns
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic nouns with irregular inflections
- aii:Heads of state
- aii:Monarchy
- Classical Syriac terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Classical Syriac terms derived from Latin
- Classical Syriac terms with IPA pronunciation
- Classical Syriac lemmas
- Classical Syriac nouns
- Classical Syriac masculine nouns
- Classical Syriac indeclinable nouns